The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-30
NUMBER II.
Current Eloquence.

Periodically some pessimist rises from
the perusal of Webster's reply 20 Hayne
or of one Of Patrick Henry's flaming out
bursts and remarks with "A sigh that the
art of eloquence il lost. But this pessi-
mlst-as pessimists generally are-is
nightly mistaken. He is like the man
! who ever and anon assures a party of
his fellow citizens assembled for socia-
/ billty ON the barrels and boxes in "A cross
1 roads store that 1--WE don't never heV no
| old-fashiuned winters no more. The
| winter Just Notwithstanding for this
writing that IL II ended -oonfounded the
! wcatherwise of this sort, 50 high and 70
! lasting was its snow pile, and orators are
/ continually rising IL their feet who dem
onstrate that eloquence springs eternal
in the human mouth.
! tn" Harpers Ferry correspondent of
| the Phillips tNe,l Monograph II not of
| those who hold that eloquence has van
! ished from the earth. He is convinced
| that those who are in search Of il have
only To go Ia West Virginia. During
! the late session of the Legislature of that
| State there was an exciting contest over
| the election of United States Senator
| The correspondent presents two speci-
mems of the elOquence with which the
heated canvass was embellished. One
| of the lawmakers, an exponent of the
plain, blunt school of eloquence, clothed
his convictions in these homespun gar
ments
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press do with this lint assembly, These
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deht VIII WIN tle tausih'e Oh PerPetua'
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'ah'fS her' ~" morning slhIs are heI
hefalds, ana lhry cry aioud' MAKE way
mere Tor lfuth Tor lo she coIheth
make way there' ye enemies OF truth
Ana thereupon the mlsts arise, the
clouds disperse' ana the bright EMU
gence OF an Eternal Purpose maketh the
pain NOR" piaih' ana another lahdInhrk
Is erected III the hafch "i human pro
grsss'
IN Nirtu" =" 'neSs TWO pursts Oh e1o
auehce ana fe' announcer eiilahatiiis from
tennessee the correspondent lwno poHsi'
ply ls nasty S'h1fhllH'r) ventures 10
MAINTAIN that IN the matter oi oratory
New Enginhh cannot compare WIN Va"
South' me specimen oi tennessee eIo-
pueh'" Whi'l u" presents N 10 pe as
signed to "A third school oi the art, the
picturesque nervous school sometimes
spoken oi hs th" blue-hIure school' IN"